Nearly 90 per cent of the data collected through almost 1m Android apps is transferred back to Google, researchers at Oxford university have found.
The peer-reviewed study analysed about a third of the apps available in Google’s Play Store in 2017 and found that the median app could transfer data to 10 third parties.
This year has seen unprecedented scrutiny over how websites use the data they collect from users, but little attention has been paid to smartphone apps.
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